Lava Jet opens new investigations against three former ministers of Lula, Rousseff and Temer

The new investigations were opened on the basis of plea bargaining of the former president of Transpetro Sérgio Machado.

15/01/2018 15h44 - Updated 15/01/2018 15h44

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The Federal Police (PF) Curitiba opened new investigations against three former ministers of Lula, Rousseff and Temer based on the award-winning denunciation of the former president of Transpetro Sérgio Machado. The targets of the research are Henrique Eduardo Alves (PMDB), former minister Dilma Rousseff (PT) and Michel Temer (PMDB) and now trapped in Lava Jet; Ideli Salvatti (PT), former minister Dilma; Edson Santos (PT), former minister of Lula (PT); and former MPs PT Cândido Vaccarezza (SP) e Jorge Bittar (RJ).

The Machado according became known after conversations recorded by him with other politicians were disclosed. In one, Senator Romero Juca (PMDB-RR) He said it would be necessary to "change the government to stop the bleeding". The new surveys shall examine alleged transfers made by contractors to political, through official donations or cash 2, in exchange for undue advantages with Transpetro.

In the case of former Minister of Institutional Relations and Human Rights Ideli Salvatti, Machado said the PT requested "features for the 2010 campaign". The whistleblower said 500.000 Real were transferred via official donation Camargo Corrêa.

The report could not contact with the former minister, but, when a whistleblower went public, she said that donations to his campaign to the Santa Catarina government 2010 "They were declared and approved by the competent bodies" and that his public conduct "is governed by the principles of ethics, morality and legality ".

In the same year, according to the former president of Transpetro, Vaccarezza and Bittar have also requested "financial support". The first would have received 500.000 real Camargo Corrêa, through donation of the company to the PT directory, and or second, 200.000 real Queiroz Galvão, also through party.

"The value was derived from bribes paid by company contracted by Transpetro (Camargo Corrêa)”, said the former president of the state, in their collaboration agreement.

In the elections of 2014, the then candidate for deputy Edson Santos would have received "undue advantage, via official donation "by Queiroz Galvão, no value 142.400 real. Santos says it is a "real frame". "What he (Machado) He said in testimony concerning a resource for me was a donation from a company for my campaign, deposited in the Bank of Brazil ", He told the story.

During his tenure ahead of Transpetro, Machado said to have passed on to the PMDB "just over 100 million reais, whose origins were bribes paid by companies contracted by Transpetro ". Of this total, 1,55 million reais would have been passed on to the then Deputy Henrique Eduardo Alves, over six years. Queiroz Galvão would have paid 500.000 real, in 2014, 250.000 real, in 2012, 300.000 real, in 2008. Galvão Engenharia already have passed 500.000 real, in 2012.

As none of the investigated has privileged forum, everyone will be in the hands of federal judge of the 13th Federal Court, in Curitiba, Sergio Moro. In September 2016, Minister Teori Zavascki, killed last year, but then draftsman of Lava jet in the Supreme Court (STF), determined the collapse of the denunciation Ax. They were in court only the investigation of who has jurisdiction.